Hi, Rusty!
Ah yes, I am sorry...... bad punctuation is to blame there, I am afraid!
My abject apologies to "Meriam Websters!
All for want of few commas......
The sentence should have read
".......it can still be found online in such as Meriam-Webster, and other, hither- to unheard of, references .
This reminds me of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves: the Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" by Lynne Truss!
Have you read this?
A hilarious book on the rules of punctuation.
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A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and proceeds to fire it at the other patrons.
"Why?" asks the confused, surviving waiter amidst the carnage, as the panda makes towards the exit.
The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"Well, I'm a panda," he says. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry in the manual and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
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Yes, , my husband is doing nicely, thank you!
I sent him to see the GP on Friday, and he was duly dispatched to the hospital for a sputum test and a chest Xray .
They are very careful since his lobectomy.
He is now on antibiotics.
I didn't go to the doctors...so I am still coughing and spluttering,!.......but yes, my nubucks will be out tomorrow!